Tecmo Bo vs. Tecmo Okoye, the Cobra Kai and a Texan CB to keep an eye on

* Okay, I’ve always thought Bo Jackson was the greatest video game RB of all-time, but how in the world can you argue against Christian “The Nigerian Nightmare” after watching his Tecmo Bowl clip? You decide …. Bo Jackson or Christian Okoye?

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* Don Shula is certainly no fan of Nick Saban’s since Nick “The Slick” snagged the head coaching job at Alabama after Shula’s son Mike was fired, but what is all this talk about anything having to do with Saban “making amends” with the Dolphins? For what? He’s a college coach in the SEC and he has nothing to do with the Dolphins or the NFL. He’s gone and the Dolphins drafted a WR with a bad foot with the ninth pick, Shula has lost 40 pounds on NutriSystem and Dan Marino really hates screwing up his lines on television. Let’s all just move on.

* Are you looking for a good darkhorse to follow in Texans training camp? Keep your eyes on CB Jason Horton who came over from Green Bay. Horton has good size at 6’0″ / 190 and he’s done a very nice job during OTAs. With his size, he could be more of a factor than anyone anticipated come fall.

* I know many of you grew up watching Karate Kid and you all remember how kick-ass the Cobra Kai were. First of all, I never thought that it seemed plausible that Daniel could beat any of the Cobra Kai. They were programmed to kill. The only thing that was surprising to me is that William Zabka (Johnny) didn’t do more with his smarmy demeanor. He should have been one of the leading jerks in at least ten movies from the 80s and 90s. His agent must have sucked. Check out this song that is an homage to Johnny from the Karate Kid and it just happens to star Zabka and the guys from Kobra Kai (the other guys with “Johnny” in the trailer). The song is called… what else…. “Sweep the Leg”.

When i had to get up to get something to drink i would never pause the game. Because you could just let the quarterback stand under center and scream “Ready, Down, hut. hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut ,hut, hut . I sometimes wondered how his throat never went hoarse. lol. anyway, best football game ever.

In the Tecmo Bowl game the fastest back was Bo. But the most fun was Okoye. By game 7 it gets tough to keep a high per run average and you have to move to a passing attack to maintain a high yardage total. I actually use Stephon Paige and Okoye in the backfield for the first 7 games because he is so fast. Then I throw for the rest of the season. But the best all round back was Thurman Thomas followed closely by Barry Sanders. If you like hitting power then the big dogs of Tecmo are Okoye, Cobb (T.B) Heyward (N.O.), Brad Muster (Chi.), and Mia’s fullback Page. The only 2 with and speed are Okoye and Cobb. The most challenging season that I have ever had in Tecmo (and I used to play a lot of it) was with the Patriots. John Stephens had over 2,000 yards on the ground, Marve Cooke lead the league in receptions and Marc Wilson and Tim Tupa passed for a combined 10,000 yards. But it was tough. I was kicking field goals by week 16 because the defenses were so amped I had no time to run or pass the ball. It was just silly.

man it was kinda sad and funny to see the faces of the 15 or so people watching the chuck an drampage fight… when chucked went down everyones mouth dropped… but we did say befroe the fight that if anyone was going to be chuck rampage was going to be the one to do it… think maybe chuck will focus and train harder if he gets a rematch for the title

My roommate and I had countless Tecmo Bowl battles in college. Surprisingly, only my GPA suffered, but that’s a different story. Bo and Okoye were “off the table” when choosing teams unless it was an LA/KC matchup. Those players were incredible.

Christian and Bo were both awesome but wasn’t Peyton the only one who could beat a “busted” play on Techmo Bowl? Ahh the memories juking in the backfield until every single defensive player was behind you or on the ground…TOUCHDOWN!

Man it was all about Barry Sanders. I think I ran for a touchdown almost everytime with that guy. And if I wasn’t playing with the lions, I was playing with the Oilers and throwing touchdown passes from endzone to endzone with Warren Moon to Ernst Givens and Drew Hill. And getting sacks with my boy Ray Childress. To this day i think that game is my favorite of all time.

Man it was all about Barry Sanders. I think I ran for a touchdown almost everytime with that guy. And if I wasn’t playing with the lions, I was playing with the Oilers and throwing touchdown passes from endzone to endzone with Warren Moon to Ernst Givens and Drew Hill. And getting sacks with my boy Ray Childress. To this day i think that game is my favorite of all time.

I remember Kenneth Davis being better than Thurman Thomas. Man I miss those Tecmo Bowl tournaments…

Lance, what are you hearing about Horton that makes you think highly of him? He wasn’t even in the NFL last year. How is Chris McKenzie doing? I’m thinking that we might be a lot better in the secondary than people think if McKenzie, Bennett, Horton and Fletcher perform at Corner and if Harrison, Walker and Hutchins step it up at Safety. Add a good pass rush from the front four and we’ll be in business, definitely.

Great video but absolutely a horrid song. They must be German or Swedish.

Zabka did play the son of the Equalizer for a season or two. He had bad timing because as he was getting older the teen movie was dying out.

The thing with Chuck is that he did the same thing before his Tito fight. Jackson finally took advantage of the fact that Chuck keeps his hands so low. Lower than a Titans fan living in Houston, now that is low.

Finally, a little bit of redemption for Zabka. I bet he’s been wanting to recreate that tournament ending every day since 1984. What the readers may not know is that he was nominated for an Oscar in 2004 for Best Short Film, Live Action. Maybe things are finally looking up for Cobra Kai.

Who was your favorite Cobra Kai cronie? Mine was always the “Get him a bodybog, Johnny! Yeahhahaha!!!” guy. He was by far the most entertaining, and also probably secretly in love with Johnny.

In other news, I heard John Cryer is using his summer hiatus from Two and a Half Men to direct a music video spoofing Pretty in Pink where Ducky actually gets Molly Ringwald. But that could just be a rumor.

Oh how I love old school Tecmo Super Bowl clips. I could beat anybody with the Oilers on that game back in the day. Warren Moon was a stud, and they had 5 good receivers, but no RB, so I just put Ernest Givins at RB. Ray Childress was a beast on defense too.

I had seen the Bo Jackson clip before, and from playing that game back in the day, I could totally see that one being a real clip from the game. However, I think the Okoye one is a fake. How do you fake a video of a NES game you ask? Well thanks to the wonderful work of hackers, the entire NES library of games is on the web for download as ROMS that you can play with an NES emulator on your PC. If you know what you’re doing, its possible to go in and edit the code and change the ratings of the players. I’m guessing that’s what they did with the Okoye video since its impossible to tackle him. The Bo video looks legit since none of the tacklers can actually get to Bo which is totally possible without any mods to the game.

What’s really cool about those ROM’s though, is that there are now versions of Tecmo Super Bowl with the rosters updated w/ the real players from several different seasons. The most recent one I’ve seen is from the 2000 season. The best mod I’ve seen though is one called Tecmo Rose Bowl. The teams and rosters are from the year that Miami played Ohio State. Miami’s prolly the best since they’re stacked w/ NFL players like McGahee, Winslow, and Sean Taylor. Auburn’s pretty money too w/ Cadillac, Ronnie Brown, and Campbell.

Bo’s definitely the best videogame RB ever, but LT’s the best player on that game. He runs around and tackles on that game like a wolverine on PCP. Love the blog and the morning show.

He runs around and tackles on that game like a wolverine on PCP.” LMAO

LZ, Tell the Chron they need to put your blog on the front page. You are way better than what they have up there now.

Bo was better than Okoye, just like Warren Moon was the best video-game QB ever on Tecmo Bowl II. It was nothing to pass for 8000 yards in a season with him, because Drew Hill on a go route was unstoppable. Not to mention that Ray Childress was the best DT ever too. 85 sacks in a season was not uncommon.

Lastly, there is no way Daniel would beat Johnny in the real world. He wore Camo pants, a grey and red baseball undershirt, rode a bicycle to high school, and wore some CHiPS sunglasses that were 5 sizes too big for his head. Wrap that up with the Japanese Bonzai head band, he was easily the biggest 80′s movie dork this side of Anthony-Michael Hall.

I had almost forgot that the Cobra Kai actually had a fat kid on staff. LOL! Also among the Cobra Kai who got their a$$ kicked in the “All Valley Tournament” was the infamous “Lamar” (Larry B.Scott) from “Revenge of the Nerds.”

Excellent stuff. Great Friday afternoon ‘sucks to be at work, can’t the clock go any faster?!’ laugh material.

I really think that if anyone has done anything bad, like farting on someone’s face while they’re passed out or holding their infant over a balcony (yes, you Jacko), that they should repent post haste. In accordance to the prophesy, having Billy Zapka AND Mister Belding in the SAME MUSIC VIDEO is the 1st sign of the apocalypse. Everyone prepare your souls.

The best offensive player on Techmo Super Bowl is randall cunningham. All you do is pick all go and either hit the open deep route or run 100 because he is just as fast as Bo on the game.

I started playing Joe Montana’s football on Sega Genesis back in ’91 and Eric Metcalf was a beast. By 92 we had all transitioned over to Madden and Randall Cunningham was the ultimate weapon on that game for the same reasons.

I agree with the rest of you, Bo was the best but Okoye was the most fun to play with. I don’t remember my Okoye being quite that good, however. The Chiefs were also one of the most fun teams to play with, b/c you had Okoye on offense and Derrick Thomas on D.

But now that I think about probably the BEST player was Randall Cunningham, aka QB Eagles. You didn’t even need your running plays with him, just call the pass, scramble around awhile, and either take off running or hurl it a mile. Good times.

LT was a beast. Denver had the best balanced attack. Dorsett and Elway were very good.

Hand down, the best video football game before Madden was ColecoVision. The graphics sucked. But as for strategy and number of plays and realism, nothing matched ColecoVision.

Colecovision was way ahead of its time. It was like Intellivision on meth. Their games were so much more advanced than Atari but their marketing must have been crap and they must have been super expensive because not that many people I knew had them. The “Rocky” boxing game and their baseball game were light years ahead of anything else on the market. My buddy Clint used to get all the newest systems. He had Colecovision and he had Atari 5200 which was very underrated. The first football game that I actually liked (not that crap Atari cranked out) was a brand called “M Network” and they put out good (for the time) football and baseball games.

Sega Genesis Madden ’93 – Barry Sanders was unstoppable in the snow or rain. We had to implement a rule that nobody could use the Lions if the weather wasn’t perfect.

The Lions defense was an atrocity so you had to outscore everyone with the Lions. We would set the game for snow sometimes and my buddy would use the Steelers and I would go with the Lions and basically it became a game where you just tried to make one stop and the game was over. Sanders in the snow is the single most devestating video football game character post-Tecmo I’ve ever seen.

Another waste of student loan money were the skins/dots games we had on PGA Tour ’93. I think I paid rent with winnings from my roommates.

Best player overall on Tecmo: David Fulcher, safety, Bengals. Hands down. I never could figure out what the developers saw in him to make him better than Ronnie Lott.Bo and Okoye is like arguing about nachos and jambalaya. Both are unbeatable on any given day.

I liked Fulcher in the early versions of Madden as well. Joey Browner was tough too. If you wanted to see tough, try snapping the ball with my buddy using Greg Lloyd and moving him all over the line pre-snap just waiting to shoot a gap and punish you. Greg Lloyd and Hardy Nickerson made life miserable for any QB. Randall Cunningham was the only guy who could back them off. I started going with the Chargers and using Marion Butts to basically eat up clock and try to consume as much time as I could with each drive.

My sincerest apologies on the unfortunate email incident. I take full responsibility. It is 100% my fault. I had recommended he check out the new Will Ferrell comedy. As it turns out, “Blades of Gloryholes” is actually not the right title.

I know we’re talking football here, but I love the old NBA Live games where Adrian Caldwell and Chris Dudley are the greatest centers to ever play the sport. You didn’t know Caldwell could hit 3 pointers from half-court at 60% clip did you? Well, according to the makers of early NBA Live games, he was the best shooting big man ever. Steve Francis?

My favorite Game was NBA Live 93 (I think). I love playing with the Cavs. I would slow the game way, way down and defend like a mother. I had Brad Daugherty and Larry Nance and they were shot blocking machines. Mark Price was pretty much all I needed on offense.

I love the Chiefs from Tecmo Bowl. I think it was the greatest pre-Madden game ever. The Cheifs had Okoye and Barry “Inmate” Word. The Q-back was like David Carr but had some pretty good recievers. And on defense they had my favorite player of all time, Derrick Thomas. God Rest his soul. My brother always killed me with the Niners and Roger Craig. Not alot of power but plenty of speed. Oh and on defense you never could out run Ronnie Lott.

It’s a toss up. While Bo’s incredible speed and agility doesn’t allow anyone near him, Okoye jist stands there a guys bounce off him.He also has pretty good speed. I think I would go with Bo. It’s great to have that kind of power, we don’t know if Bo has that power because he’s untouchable, therefore he doesn’t need it.

Well I guess I got the result right w/ Bacala going ahead of the bunch you put odds on a few weeks ago, just not the means. That’s been the tough part about predicting the Sopranos. Most of the time its fairly easy to pick who’s gotta go, but picking how has been damn near impossible. Classic example is Richie Aprile. Everybody knew w/in a few episodes of seeing him, he wasn’t going to last long, but who would’ve thought Janice would be the one to do it? This last episode was depressing though. Actually this whole slew of bonus episodes has been. I still think somehow Tony survives. Maybe Agent Harris and the feds step in before Phil can get to Tony. It sure seems like Tony and his crew are outmuscled. Since the last episode is coming up, I think it would be cool if you did another oddsmakers, or some kind of other Sopranos related entry. I thought the banter from the last one was pretty awesome. Do you have a fav. episode or season?

When it comes to defenses in Tecmo, Minnesota had the best players in the right position. The safety position put you too far out to stop running plays later in the season. So while Browning, Fulcher, and Lott were great players they were not as dominant as an inside player could be.

Left side linebacker and nose tackle – back then it was Keith Millard (LB) and Mike Merriweather (NT) those guys were awesome. They were very good as was Pittsburgh, Dallas with Noonan and Norton, Kansas City was pretty good – Saleamua (sp?)and Snow, New Orleans – Mills & Martin. The most dominant nose tackle in the entire game was

Jerry Ball from Detriot. It wasn’t even fair.

The best kept defensive secret in the game was Bob Nelson from Green Bay. His stats were not correct in the game for some reason. Bob Nelson was a freak. He was faster then Reggie White and in a much better position for game play.

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And I’d agree Barry Sanders was awesome in Tecmo. Someone had mentioned Peyton earleir – Walter Peyon was not in this version of Tecmo – it was Neal Anderson for Chicago and he was a killer. The Bears were a very good team all around but the QB and recievers were weak.

I loved to play with San Diego and the Rams because everyone thought that they sucked. But both had surprisingly good offenses if you knew what to do with them. Jim Everett was the 3rd best NFC QB and Tolliver could throw a rocket – hahah more like a SCUD since his accuracy was not too hot.

Some people are getting the original Tecmo Bowl confused with Tecmo Super Bowl. In the original, the Bears were the best all around team–Payton for running, Willie Gault for passing, and Mike Singletary was unblockable. And in the original, you could choose plays with LA that had Bo and Marcus Allen in the same backfield.

In Super Bowl, you could block every single FG and PAT with LT. It was also fun if you were playing a season and Okoye got hurt, because you could insert Barry Word and not lose much. That’s what made the Chiefs the best team, but Eagles QB during Cunningham’s holdout was easily the best overall player.

And the basketball game was no slouch either. Hakeem never missed a shot within “10 feet” of the hoop.

The most unstoppable play was Jerry Rice on the deep cross….it literally was complete 100% of the time….it ended the game for me and my buddy. LT blocking FGs….and the Mack Truck on Cle was fun to play with along w/ the speedy return guy they had….WR Webster Slaughter….Bo was the most amazing….you could run out quarters with his speed and ability to break tackles….guy never fatigued.

Haha – great memories, Akoye was a bad ass – even though it was for a short time. And Bo RULES, had he not injured his hip he would have been as big as Michael Jordan. Bo knows Techmo.

BTW – the song “sweep the leg” is a cool vid, and the song isn’t bad but it’s missing something – I was waiting for a more hardcore song w/ more bass guitar, hard rock, but it’d kinda “light” and this guy’s voice is on the lighter side too if ya know what I mean….